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William Osler
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William Osler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1849
Born: July 12
Died: 1919
Died: December 29
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Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
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I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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Advice is sought to confirm a position already taken.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.
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It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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We are all dietetic sinners only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
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Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is the practice of living for the day only, and for the day's work.
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There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
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Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is
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